Writing
Contests:

Information Provided by Dean Sowle's Office

New listings added for the current week, if any,
are indicated in italics. Print copies of the rules and regulations
governing the writing contests listed here are available from Denise Lang in Suite
320.
*Congratulations
to Elizabeth K. Camille (class of 2012) for winning first place in the 2010 SmithAmundsen
Excellence in Legal Writing Award.*Congratulations to Matthew J. Bartmes (class of 2010) for winning first place in the Louis Jackson National Memorial Law Student Writing Competition in Employment and Labor Law.*Congratulations to Keith R. Syverson (class of 2011) for winning first place in the 2010 Chicago-Kent Institute for Law and the Humanities Paper Competition, and to Jerry D. Thomas (class of 2011) for winning second place in the competition.

Sponsor/Title:University of Connecticut School of Law/Student Legal Writing Competition.Topic: Any legal issue affecting persons struggling with homelessness, mental illness, addiction, or subtance abuse.Prizes: First place, $750; second place, $500; third place, $250.Deadline: June 1, 2011Web site:http://www.law.uconn.edu/node/9768Sponsor/Title:American College of Employee Benefits Counsel Writing Competition.Topic: Any topic in the field of employee benefits law.Prizes: $1,500 to each of two winners.Deadline: June 1, 2011Sponsor/Title:American Judges Association Law Student Essay Competition.Topic: Must a minor student be given his or her rights, including a Miranda warning and the right to have a parent present, before being questioned by police on school grounds?Prizes: First place, $3,000; second place, $1,500; third place, $1,000.Deadline: June 1, 2011Web site:http://aja.ncsc.dni.usSponsor/Title:Chicago-Kent Institute for Law and the Humanities Paper Prizes.Topic: Submissions should examine an issue from both a legal and humanities-based perspective. Chicago-Kent J.D. and LL.M. students enrolled in the 2010-2011 academic year are eligible.
Eligible papers include those submitted for seminars and for Independent Research during the current 2010-11 academic year (including those from the Fall 2010 semester), as well as student law review notes and comments, so long as they were written during the current academic year and are primarily the student's own work. Submissions may be made electronically either to Professor Sheldon Nahmod at snahmod@kentlaw.edu or to Professor Felice Batlan at fbatlan@kentlaw.edu.Prizes: First place, $1,000; second place, $500.Deadline: July 1, 2011

Sponsor/Title:The Theodore Tannenwald, Jr. Foundation for Excellence in Tax Scholarship and The American College of Tax Counsel/Tannenwald Writing Competition.Topic: Any federal or state tax-related topic.Prizes: First place, $5,000; second place, $2,500; third place, $1,500.Deadline: July 1, 2011